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ss. JANUS (B.I. Livery)

 

 


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Official Number Date Builder Tonnage L B D Fate
120765 1910

Palmers Jarrow , UK

4824 400.4 53.6 27.5

Transferred to B.I. 1913

Sunk as breakwater 1933

Capt Colin McDonald - Master 1910 to 1921

Passenger/cargo steamship built for Archibald Currie & Co's Australian and Indian Line, Melbourne in 1910. Employed on the Melbourne - Calcutta run she carried Australian Brumbies north and Indian produce and exotic animals on the southern run.

1917  
   
 

??.01.1917 - Sailed Melbourne. Loaded:

For Bombay: 15 rolls leather, 100 cases of canned fruits.

   
  12.01.1917 - Arrived Sydney.
   
 

??.01.1917 - Sailed Newcastle. Loaded:

For Bombay: 702 tons coal, 1 cow.

   
  03.04.1917 - Arrived Sydney.
   
 

??.04.1917 - Sailed Melbourne. Loaded:

For Calcutta: 116 horses, 2 cs saddlery.


For Bombay: 3289 cs provisions, ( the following was Shipped by the Commonwealth Government), 630 cs
pres. meats, 1750 cs cnd vegetables.

   
 

??.04.1917 - Sailed Brisbane. Loaded:

101 horses.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Served as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
   

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